SAGA-No-MACHIYA (Old house in Saga)
Description
"Saga-no-machiya" depicts a traditional townhouse (machiya) in Saga, the district on Kyoto's northwestern edge near Arashiyama, whose traditional built environment combined the urban machiya format with the more rural architectural traditions of the surrounding hills and bamboo groves. Nishijima renders this "old house in Saga" — as the subtitle specifies — with his characteristic attention to the age and history embodied in the structure: the patina of old timber, the slight irregularities of long inhabitation, the quality of a building that has shaped itself to its users as much as they have shaped it.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
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A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
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View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
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Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
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Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
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Frequently Asked Questions
SAGA-No-MACHIYA (Old house in Saga) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
SAGA-No-MACHIYA (Old house in Saga) depicts urban scenes, architecture, and trees.